The movie Barbie continues to break box-office records, having recently topped The Dark Knight of the Batman series to become Warner Brothers biggest movie ever at the American box office, earning over $537M and counting… Needless to say, the Mattel group is also giddy with delight at the reception of the movie, with potential sequels, […]
Love, Marriage & Sexuality through the eyes of Jyo
Weekend immersion, June 1-4, 2023, in Sedona, AZ Namasté, astrological community! We’re pleased and honored to offer a weekend intensive at the Shine Sanctuary on June 1-4, 2023, in Sedona, AZ. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll explore in great depth various relationship dynamics, including romantic bias, commitment phobia, marital prognosis, sexual tendencies, and […]
Jeff Bezos: Croesus of the internet age
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic made shopping-by-Amazon a virtual necessity, Jeff Bezos had already built a mousetrap that brought the world beating a path to his door. Since the inception of Amazon.com in 1994 as an online marketplace for books, the company has since expanded in multiple directions, now selling virtually every kind of consumer […]
Jerry Falwell: thumping more than his Bible?
âRahu made me do it,â Falwell explains to a packed media scrum, in response to a series of allegations, revelations and speculations that have come spilling out of his now-unzipped private life. For years, itâs been an open secret at Liberty University, the flagship of Christian evangelical higher education where Falwell was President until this […]
Nodal “weather forecast” Q4 2019
This is a continuation of my series on the âpower levelsâ of the nodes. Readers interested in the attributed values governing the appearance of this graph are encouraged to read earlier posts in this series. The blue line represents the cumulative energy that Rahu carries on behalf of planets for whom it can act as […]
Prime malefics in homicidal charts
Prime malefics in homicidal charts Despite our best intentions, many people find murder fascinating. And yet because it’s the worst of crimes, to rob another person of their life, we hold killers in contempt. Even as we despise them, however, we struggle to understand them, to know what quirk of gene, character or fate compelled […]
The Mathematics of Yogas, part 6: Viparita Raja Yo...
Viparita Raja Yoga Not every cloud has a silver lining, but when it does, it provides an example of how Viparita Raja Yoga works. This yoga operates on the principle that, effectively, two wrongs make a right. For the mathematically-inclined, this is like multiplying two negative numbers and getting a positive, as in (-2) x […]
Mathematics of Yogas, part 5: Dhana Yoga
Itâs a truism in the medical world that the best guarantee of longevity is to be born to healthy parents. For those who take their health for granted, the next-most-desired aspect of a perfect life is to be born rich or, if thatâs not possible, with a birth chart containing multiple wealth yogas. Although there […]
David Bowie: the starman who fell to earth
David Bowie: the starman who fell to earth âThereâs a starman waiting in the sky, heâd like to come and meet us, but he thinks heâd blow our minds.â From the moment he first appeared as Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie was the beautiful alien we fell in love with. In one swoop he made extraterrestrial […]
Robin Williams’ divine spark of madness
Eclipses have an awesome capacity to plunge us into darkness, leaving us wondering what the hell happened. In the wake of Robin Williamsâ suicide, such is the collective state of mind of fans throughout the western world. If there was one word to describe Robin Williams, it might have to be manic. As far as […]